# Bute Building

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{{Short description|University building in Cardiff, Wales}}
{{Distinguish|Bute House}}
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The '''Bute Building''' ({{langx|cy|Adeilad Bute}}) is a [Cardiff University](/source/Cardiff_University) building in [Cathays Park](/source/Cathays_Park), [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), Wales. It houses the [Welsh School of Architecture](/source/Welsh_School_of_Architecture). It is a Grade II [listed building](/source/listed_building).<ref>{{cite web|title=Bute Building|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-13739-bute-building-castle|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=2013-03-21}}</ref>

The [neoclassical](/source/Neoclassical_architecture) building was designed by architects [Percy Thomas](/source/Percy_Thomas) and Ivor Jones, who won a competition in 1911 to design a building for Cardiff Technical College.<ref name="Thomas">{{cite web|url = https://biography.wales/article/s2-THOM-EDW-1883 |title = Thomas, Sir Percy Edward (1883–1969)|publisher = [National Library of Wales](/source/National_Library_of_Wales)|accessdate = 2009-05-24}}</ref> The foundations of the building were laid in 1913 and the building opened in 1916.<ref name="Companion">{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Np_H_j3hXUEC&q=percy+thomas+bute+building&pg=PA167|title = The companion guide to Wales By David Barnes|isbn = 9781900639439|accessdate = 2009-05-24|last1 = Barnes|first1 = David|year = 2005}}</ref><ref name="Engineers">{{cite web |url=http://www.indin2009.com/node/10 |title=INDIN 2009 24–26th June 2009, Cardiff UK |publisher=[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](/source/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers) |accessdate=2009-05-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624054457/http://www.indin2009.com/node/10 |archive-date=24 June 2009 }}</ref> The building has six [Roman Doric columns](/source/Doric_order) in the front of the building and includes the [Birt Acres](/source/Birt_Acres) Lecture Theatre.<ref name="Monumental">{{cite web|url = http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/31905/details/technical+college%3Bbute+building%3Buniversity+of+wales+institute+of+science+and+technology,+cathays+park,+cardiff/|title = Technical College; Bute Building; University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cathays Park, Cardiff|publisher = [Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales](/source/Royal_Commission_on_the_Ancient_and_Historical_Monuments_of_Wales)|accessdate = 2009-05-24|archive-date = 6 February 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100206160112/http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/31905/details/TECHNICAL+COLLEGE%3BBUTE+BUILDING%3BUNIVERSITY+OF+WALES+INSTITUTE+OF+SCIENCE+AND+TECHNOLOGY%2C+CATHAYS+PARK%2C+CARDIFF/|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="Cardiff">{{cite web|url = http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/estat/roombookings/cathays/bute/161bute/index.html|title = Pool Room 1.61, Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building|publisher = [Cardiff University](/source/Cardiff_University)|accessdate = 2009-05-24|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605215708/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/estat/roombookings/cathays/bute/161bute/index.html|archive-date = 5 June 2011|url-status = dead}}</ref> The design has been called "disappointingly conventional"<ref name="Newman1995">{{cite book|author=John Newman|title=Glamorgan: Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpUMspCtpNIC&pg=PA114|year=1995|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-14-071056-6|pages=114}}</ref>

In 1962 the Technical college became the [Welsh College of Advanced Technology](/source/College_of_advanced_technology_(United_Kingdom))<ref>{{cite web |title=Records of Cardiff's Technical Colleges, 1866-1988 |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/10f4c202-37f3-3508-995a-82086416567d |access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref> and in 1968 the Bute Building became the main building of the [University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology](/source/University_of_Wales_Institute_of_Science_and_Technology) (UWIST). It now houses the Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cathays Park Campus A self-guided tour |url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/129733/tour.pdf |publisher=[Cardiff University](/source/Cardiff_University) |access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref> It also contained two libraries, the Bute Library and Architecture Library.<ref name="Mortimer2014">{{cite book|author=Dic Mortimer|title=Cardiff The Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_pkFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT143|date=15 October 2014|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-4251-2|pages=143}}</ref>

The UK's largest Sky Dome, an artificial sky 8 metres in diameter run by the School of Architecture and used for daylight modelling and [sun-path](/source/Sun_path) studies, is located in the basement of the building.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cardiff school reaches for the artificial sky|url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/cardiff-school-reaches-for-the-artificial-sky/770542.article|work=Architects' Journal|date=25 March 1999}}</ref>

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==External links==
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Category:Cardiff University
Category:School buildings completed in 1916
Category:Grade II listed buildings in Cardiff
Category:Percy Thomas buildings
Category:Neoclassical architecture in Wales
Category:Cathays Park
Category:1916 establishments in Wales

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